Randall v. Evening News Ass'n

The plaintiff commenced a suit in a plea of trespass on the case for libel against the defendants in the Wayne circuit court.

His declaration averred that he was and is a good, true, honest, just, and faithful citizen of this State, and as such had always behaved and conducted himself; that at the time of the printing and publication of the articles of which he complains he was a member of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, from the city of Detroit, being such member from January 2, 1889, up to the present time; that as such member he hath at all times conducted himself as a good,…